Legislative election structurally favors former legislators for judgeships

Evidence

2. Election by the legislature. In Virginia and South Carolina, the legislature elects state judges. This system favors the judicial candidacies of former legislators— more than three quarters of supreme court justices in these states had served in the state legislature. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 385

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the selection-system tradeoffs between independence and accountability discussed in ch4 of this same book. — connects to: Political selection fills the courts with judges holding established partisan views — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2571
• QUESTION: Worth checking: how long had these justices served as legislators, and does legislative service track with voting behavior on the bench?

Broader Connections

• Political selection fills the courts with judges holding established partisan views #expands (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2571